Over the past year, ProPublica has published hundreds of investigations. In January, Kyle Hopkins of the Anchorage Daily News examined why a sexual assault case took seven years to go to trial in Alaska. In March, our video journalists told the stories of three mothers fighting to address America’s stillbirth crisis. In August, a team
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Artist’s impression of the free-floating planet lensing light from a distant source J. Skowron/OGLE Nearly 10,000 light years away, a planet the size of Saturn is floating all on its own through empty space. In a stroke of luck, researchers were able to spot this strange, dark world using both ground-based telescopes and the Gaia
What kind of New Year’s resolution you make depends on your unique goals—which means you need a way to track your progress that is just as unique. If your resolution is to cut back on social media use and your friend’s is to run a faster mile, you won’t measure success the same way. Even
There are certain stereotypes of Jewish masculinity that are supposed to come with the kind of territory of a movie like Josh Safdie’s Marty Supreme. In the film, Timothée Chalamet stars as Marty Mauser, a young Jewish man living in a post-war Lower East Side Manhattan. Marty is supposed to be physically meek but intellectual
Chappell Roan, Mariah Carey, Post Malone, and dozens more performed televised sets last night (December 31) during Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest to help ring in 2026. Moments before the ball dropped in New York City’s Times Square, Roan sang “The Subway” live in Kansas City, Carey performed a medley including
Garth Brooks recently attended a big event in Washington, D.C. The country star’s attire drew widespread criticism on social media. Keep reading for more details about the shocking incident. Garth Brooks Performs At 2025 Kennedy Center Honors Garth Brooks was a beloved country star in the 1990s. His image and reputation took a major hit
Universal Pictures’ epic action movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger has finally found a new streaming home. More than four decades after its initial theatrical run, Schwarzenegger’s Conan the Destroyer movie is now officially available to stream on Netflix. What do we know about Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Conan the Destroyer movie? Conan the Destroyer serves as the sequel
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This year, the fight over free expression in American higher education reached a troubling milestone. According to data from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, efforts to censor speech on college campuses hit record highs and across multiple fronts – and most succeeded. View Source Here
Not stopping on a run when you feel the urge helps practise self-control miljko/Getty Images Olivia Remes is a mental health and well-being researcher at the University of Cambridge, author of This Is How You Grow After Trauma and a life coach. Her research has covered everything from assessing the prevalence of poor mental health
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As always, we wanted to spotlight the indie games in 2025 that caught our attention and our hearts. To round up our top indie games of 2025, we looked at writers’ personal favorites as provided by their lists and scores across our site to pick our top 25. Whether it’s roguelikes, the occult, or just something
Wilco have announced the lineup for their 2026 Solid Sound Festival, where the band will headline alongside the Breeders, Gang of Four, and Billy Bragg. Scheduled from June 26 to 28, the event also boasts performances by Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band, Sharp Pins, S.G. Goodman, L’Rain, the Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis, Hannah
There are a lot of relationships on television, but they don’t all ignite a spark onscreen. Not every pairing makes you lean forward, forget the plot, what just happened before, or feel the temperature rise just because two people shared a look across a crowded room. That kind of raw, on-screen passion is rare, and
Warning: Spoilers ahead for Stranger Things’ series finale!Coming in at over two hours, there’s plenty to unpack with the Stranger Things series finale episode. As the Party set out on their big mission in Stranger Things season 5, Volume 2’s ending, the final episode begins right after the events of “The Bridge,” with the group
It’s that time of year again on the bookish internet: the time when we all gather together to talk about our favorite books of the year, our least favorites, and how we did on our reading goals. This should be a moment to trade book recommendations, celebrate our fellow readers’ wins, and look forward to
President Donald Trump signed into law this month a measure that prohibits anyone based in China and other adversarial countries from accessing the Pentagon’s cloud computing systems. The ban, which is tucked inside the $900 billion defense policy law, was enacted in response to a ProPublica investigation this year that exposed how Microsoft used China-based
Quantum computers are well-matched to solve chemistry problems Marijan Murat/dpa/Alamy Whether quantum computers can actually solve practical problems is one of the biggest unanswered questions of this growing industry – and one that might be answered by researchers in industrial and medical chemistry in 2026. Calculating the structure, reactivity and other chemical properties of a